Photo credit: Diane Fischer – Courtesy to be published with biography Dee Lee…the mother…Dee Lee…the loving daughter…Dee Lee…the meat cutter…Dee Lee…Atlantic City’s hairdresser to the stars…Dee Lee…the community difference maker…and Dee Lee…the glamorous, fierce, groundbreaking boxing promoter. Just who is the gorgeous red head named Dee Lee and why have so many people of all
This news was reported on October 16, 2023, apparently it took the BBC up until 2023 to issue the first black female a British Boxing Board of Control “manager’s licence—-So we are reporting the historical landmark for the BBC to do such a thing—I am sure female boxers and the boxing community are thrilled about
The National Federations for boxing in the Philippines, Scotland, Wales, Suriname and the US Virgin Islands have become the latest five organizations to have their membership applications approved by World Boxing, the new international federation established to keep boxing at the heart of the Olympic Movement and support the growth and development of the sport
(OCT 11) On October 6, 2023,at the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame event, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at our pre-celebration day of the “Night of the Stars” event, WBAN presented three mini-WBAN Belts with a case to three prominent pioneer female boxers for the first time in the
The Boxing Writers Association of America would like to proudly announce that Lance Pugmire is the 50th recipient of the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism that was first presented by the Boxing Writers Association of America in 1972. A 30-year newspaperman who grew up reading daily dispatches by prior Fleischer winners Norm
Historic article: article in the South Bend Tribune Magazine – estimated year 1956. The Article is by Sarah Lockkerbie. It talks about her eight years in boxing, and that sometimes she had to resort to wrestling when boxing was not allow. It also reports that she participated in CANADA’s FIRST EVENT of the kind, Stage
The background of this photo may be part of PUNCH Magazine. Wiki describes it as as the following: Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term “cartoon” in its
Barbara Buttrick was on the fight scene a good many years. In these photos, we see her in a private bout held in a carnival tent in Iowa. In August of 1954. Her opponent was Vivian Foster. Despite the weight difference–Barbara only weighed 95 lbs., Vivian quit after a third-round knockout. [This document is in
In 1923, Hitler himself had occasion to watch female fisticuffs. The circumstances were such that Hitler and one of his early friends, Ernst Putzi Hanfstaengl had spent a Sunday visiting the Berlin National Gallery. Afterwards, according to Hanfstaengl’s memoirs, “The Missing Years” published in London in 1957, “We watched the women boxers in Luna